FASHION NOTES.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1926, Page 26

FASHION NOTES.

(BY AN EXPERT.)

PARIS, March 3,

' The Paris dressmakers are really wonderful (writes our correspondent). One ! can have little doubt about that. The manufacturers and the dressmakers have worked together, and they are using Oriental colours and Oriental designs in the right way. And they have an innate sense of the fitness of artistic things. They know just where and how to bring East and West together, and we have already some perfectly charming little spring and summer ! frocks and costumes to delight our i hearts. Our business will be how to wear them-—and to pay for them. A minor detail this, of course, since the prices are so high that they are no longer visible. We say this every season, and still we go on paying them. Cream woollen cloth, woven with rich colours into fine designs, will be made up into dresses, cloaks and coats. They will be soft and light and uncrushable. They will fall straight and be very short—at the knees as a matter of fact, according to the Mode Actuelle. Green and blue, grege, rose-beige, parma and ashes of roses are the newer colours. Eastern reds, yellows, and a knowing touch of black will go to swell the jewel-like richness of the woven designs. Trimmings are to be queer. It is the business of trimmings to be so—either that or quaint—never banalc. Glowing with tantalising colour, piquing the vagrant fancy with little unexpected tit-bits of trimming, are the; new hats for spring. Truly a delectable display" to whet the beauty-craving spring-time appetite. The chic small hat, on the qui-vive with news of unique brim or recherche trimming—you may deem it the piece de resistance of the spring hat feast as seen in Paris—but it is only a tiny morsel—the entire feast is here! A host of new colours, a sprinkling of new straws, more clevor ways of manipulating straws, ribbons, flowers and feathers—such is the impression of a stroll through the salons of the Paris milliners to view the spring millinery to-day. I invite you, dear friends, to take this pleasant stroll with mc. The unexpected greets you at every turn, each model is a real find—toques, turbans, cloches, picture chapeux and gay, flower-trimmed models in the lovely pastel shades—fascinating! A cosmopolitan touch where spring hats are concerned is expressed in daring curves, drooping brims, double brims, double crowns, new colours, new materials, new ideas, which make the new hats sophisticated, and ever interesting. They are all fascinating. No others could be tilted at quite such captivating angles, or show such endearing disregard for conventional lines. There are mimosa coloured chrysanthemum braids, apple blossom satin and floss combinations, genuine Italian Milan hats, rust coloured straws, and fabrics in all fashionable shades. A different tilt to the brim, an audacious pose of a motif, a new fabric smartly used, a newcolour, and a new mode makes its dramatic entrance! Spring hats arc all that is smartest in straw, novelty braid and fabric, designed by the best artistfor your appreciation! Brilliantly coloured little hats, trimmed with blossoms or fruit. Evening shades-, in beautiful-pastel colours, irregular, graceful shapes, intriguing trimmings. And pretty? Thiey arWa'svattractive'as '-'flowers, fruits, embroidery, and gay ribbons van' -make them.;-The new} hats "for spring! are here, arid as they're lifted, from the' boxes, you' should; just hear the ..chorus I of delighted "Ohs"- a_d. '•'Ahs!'- tittered over theprettiness" of "each ''one.' I've never seen* such beauties! " By way of postscript, let m? mention a few, of the dresses I.have, seen at the last, of the. "Openings.". A pale yellow satin dress, with pleated; skirt, covered with blue beads; ..a white • georgette dress, with: a little coat of gold lao 3, a gold plissec skirt with a gold lame jacket, and a ■ gold waistcoat beneath. Gold lace, like a cobweb, fitting close to the figure, is a dress no Woman could resist. Blue georgette, 1 green and yellow —all made on the same' simple lines, flowing backs, short skirts—have that distinctive air, of which only Paris knows the secret. Coloured" suede is used to trim dresses, and one .model in-pink, has a suede waistcbast in grey. A wedding gown in satin, with embroidery in diam :nte and silver, is being made for a well-known . society girl. It has a. very short skirt, but the .veil to go with it is to be very long, and will sweep behind for a yard or two, and is outlined in silver thread. Our Sketch. ■ Smart spring overcoat of checked Lweed in sand and brown. There are

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